"Mrs.Baker" Sounds Good To Mann - June 14, 2000

MRS.BAKER's co-producers Kris Kristensen and Brian McDonald met with composer Hummie Mann today about possibly scoring the soundtrack for MRS.BAKER. Mann just completed work on the upcoming children's film THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD. In the past he has scored the television adaptation of IN COLD BLOOD and in 1992 he won the award for most underrated score of the year for YEAR OF THE COMET from "Composer Magazine".

McDonald said, "We're lucky to have someone like Hummie up here in the Northwest. I don't know if we'd have ever been able to find someone of his stature without having to go through L.A. agents and then we couldn't have afforded him. Fortunately Hummie likes our script so we think we can work out a deal with him."

Kristensen added, "I heard Hummie speak at the Seattle Film Festival a few years back and was very impressed by what he had to say about putting pop songs in a film. He more or less said that if you're going to put a pop song over the film's closing credit crawl, that the film's composer should work together in unison with a lyricist in order to come up with a song that feels organic to the rest of the film. He attributed this to the success of Celine Dion's song from TITANIC. It makes sense to me. By the time you get to the end credits, you subconsciously know the song because you've heard its melody throughout the film."

McDonald also had this to say, "Hummie seems really interested in getting Seattle film to happen. That's great. Not only just for us, but also for the rest of the community to have a professional like Hummie out there willing to work with local up and comers."

Mann told the producers that he would do whatever he could to help them get MRS.BAKER made. "He genuinely thinks we've got a good project on our hands. He told me that he wants to see this film get made. You gotta like that."